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Thread has taken 415 academically underperforming students in Baltimore schools and built an extended family around them, with about 1,000 volunteers. Each student is given up to five volunteers, who perform the jobs that a family member would perform.

Each volunteer is coached by a more experienced volunteer, called the Head of Family. The Head of Family is coached by a Grandparent, who supports the Head. The Grandparents are coached by Community Managers, who are paid Thread staffers. Circling the whole system are Collaborators, who offer special expertise when called in — legal help, SAT tutoring, mental health counseling, etc.

Beer is so fascinating. Every brewery in every city tells a different story with their beer. They attract and engage their audience, in a way that keeps them coming back.

While I don’t think I travel a ton, I definitely travel a fair amount. As I’ve traveled the country (and the world), it’s so fun to try the local beers, visit the breweries, and see local people. You really get an authentic sense for the local flavor.

Just today, we went to the popular fruit farm East of St Louis Eckerts. We went to the restaurant, which leverages a lot of the crops, to celebrate my mother-in-law’s birthday. In their attached store, they were showcasing Main Street Brewing Company in downtown Belleville, IL. I grabbed a 6-pack of their 2-Hop IPA. It’s delicious. I’m drinking it now. I’m kind of bummed I didn’t also grab a 6 pack of their Blood Orange Radler. That was delicious as a sampler.

My wife and I were already talking about making a trip to Belleville to visit the brewery in person. I hear downtown Belleville is cute. We’ll take the kids and make it a trip.

During my last trip to New York City, I went to Brooklyn to meet a friend for dinner. I got to the neighboorhood early and had some time to kill. I wandered my way up to Brooklyn Brewery. This was super cool because Brooklyn Brewery is one of the godfathers of craft beer movement. Head Brewer Garrett Oliver is a beast of the food world. I tried an IPA that I hadn’t had before. I really wanted to try the Black Ops that I’d heard so much about but wasn’t in the mood for a 10% ABV imperial stout.

Prior to that, I was on a trip to visit my team in Denver. Our office is in a suburb. After a couple days of work in the office, I grabbed my team and we worked from 4 Noses Brewing Company. I had some delicious NE-style IPA’s, while we jammed out the last bit of our work.

Travel the country (and really the world) through beer. Find a brewery where you’re going. Stop by and drink it the area around you. Maybe say hello to the person sitting on a stool next to you.

Waymo’s fleet of self-driving vehicles are now logging 25,000 miles every day on public roads, Krafcik said. He later tweeted out the stats along with a graphic. Waymo has 600 self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans on the road in 25 cities.

Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them.

When the president is likely albeit unknowingly compromised by Russia and parroting their propaganda, we need to be all the more skeptical about the information that we consume.

The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

And what makes Trump even more powerful and problematic is that this president with no shame is combined with a party with no spine and a major network with no integrity

So… how do we create political change? Tom shares…

The only way to change this situation is not by hoping that the president develops some shame or that this version of the G.O.P. develops some spine. It is by Democrats winning the House, the Senate or both in the midterm elections.

Only by dealing an electoral defeat to this version of the G.O.P. in the midterms will we possibly get a healthy conservative party again (which we need) and curb Trump’s power.

Everything else is just words — and words without power change nothing.

His rosy outlook was almost immediately rejected by North Korea’s foreign ministry, which called the U.S. attitude to the talks “regrettable” and accused the United States of making unilateral demands for denuclearization. Pompeo just hours earlier said the two sides engaged in “good-faith negotiations.”

At least, we’re talking. If we’re talking, we’re not immediately on the path to blowing each other up, which seemed imminent before.

Ever since that time, the American people have stayed true to our heritage by rejecting the siren song of protectionism. In recent years, the trade deficit led some misguided politicians to call for protectionism, warning that otherwise we would lose jobs. But they were wrong again. In fact, the United States not only didn’t lose jobs, we created more jobs than all the countries of Western Europe, Canada, and Japan combined. The record is clear that when America’s total trade has increased, American jobs have also increased. And when our total trade has declined, so have the number of jobs.